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Subject advised that Aline‘ HOSBY was a newepaperman in SCHAPIRO' #0 Wot Reproduce |
office. MULBY, durir:: the vast year, tad been in the hospital on several |
occasions, and one dicn't see too met. of her. Subject also acvised that i
HOSEY stuck mostly to the foreign circuit rather than the Bnbassy circuit,
Subject stated that one of the reasons MOSBY was in the hoapital, on one
occasion, was the fact, that she had an abortion, according to gossip.

J Subject stated that another newspaperwomen in Moscow was Priscilla
JOWN30N. Subject advised that JOHNSON had the reputation of being a rairly
Foot reporter and one whom the Soviets kept on a month to month visa basia,
Subject indicated that it was highly-posesible the Sovieta had attenupted to r ;
recruit. JOWNSON, as she spent a lot of time with Soviet nationals. a i i
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oubjoct. was queried as to whether he had ever made an unauthorized
disclosure of classified information in the' Soviet Union, to which he re-
plied that he had not disclosed classified information as sugh. He stated
that his cover, which he had used for the period in between/State Depart~77 /
manf}) issignments, was that he was a (consultant of the AEC, particularly ey '
to tne Joint Atomic unergy Intelligence Committee; composed of AEC, CLA,
State, NSA, Joint Chiefs, and the Armed Services|.~] Subject stated that he .
had indieated to individuals, when questioned, at he had done economic ;
research amd onalysis in tha Soviet field and that he had done this ever : |
gince he nad first become a{Stat ¢,Departmen smployes. Subject etated that,
_ amonp others, he had discussed this wi th fay HUTCHINS, his counterpart in
the (British tnbasnye} ee ems ocioy ,

Subject was asked for his itinerary on his roturn trip to the United
States and who authorized the trip. Subject stated that he had long planned *
ts come home via the Far Kast, and it was a well publicized plan, tis stated :
thet when ho left Moscow, he stayed over in Delhi for a week to soa if there
warc any objections from Headquarters as to his itinerary, Ho stated that '
when ha resal ved no instructiona to the contrary, he returnod to the United |
tutes via his previously announced plane ard the differensog in fares being t
harne bro hin, .

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Subject departed Nogcow 1 September 1960 (1:00 A,li.}3 wont to Tashkent
wed thon to selhs here he spont one weeks Banrkok,  daya; Saigon, 6 dayoy.
Hon You, © caysy Tokyo, 5 days; Hawaii, 5 dayss San Francisco, 5 days;
Loc anvelse, ? days; Lus Vepas, 2 days; Denver, 10. daysy arrived Washington

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